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Below is my latest creation. It's completely freehand without reference material and it's not too bad. That said, I'm looking for a pretty harsh critique. What did I do wrong, and how do I do it better? The basic composition is strong. You did a nice job of creating a foreground, middle ground and ...

Glad that was of help! Yeah, I find that there's rarely a value change in a picture without a hue or saturation adjustment and multiply mode just doesn't give me control over that. I never settle for any color that Photoshop gives me — I adjust everything.

When I'm concepting, I need silence. For intense drawing, I sometimes can listen to music. When I go totally right brain, I like to keep my left brain occupied with comedy podcasts: Nerdist, Kevin & Bean, I Love Movies, Adam Carolla. Anyone else use last.fm? I just found a good scrobbler for the Mac...

Thanks, Stephen! That first set of images were not all digital. I started with a detailed pencil drawing and then flatted it in Photoshop. Once I had the flats, dropping in scanned textures was easy. The key is how you adjust the texture. If you just set the layer to "multiply" you only end up makin...

I really like the art style, and the evolution of it. It must be quite a challenge to tell a little story with a joke in a 3 line haiku! Well done. Thanks! Yeah, it is a challenge to try to make a comic in the spirit of haiku poetry — which is really all about getting at the essence of something — ...

I don't know, I was pretty disappointed. I am a HUGE fan of Mazzucchelli's 90s work (Rubber Blanket, City of Glass, assorted Drawn & Quarterly stories) and pre-ordered Asterois Polyp months ago — but, for all that, I just couldn't get that into the book. Much of the book felt like a technical exerci...

Thanks guys! Yeah, character design is something I've been focusing more on. Not in the sense that I do turn arounds or anything, but I have been trying to expand the "vocabulary" of my style to encompass a wider variety of people.

Meeting regular deadlines with Haiku Comics has been an interesting process. I keep wondering if I'll hit a wall, or if my style will stop evolving, but I keep finding myself digging deeper into the art the further we go. I think I've generated some nice work this past month, here are some of my fav...